You’re in executive job search or expect to be sometime soon. Are you making serious LinkedIn mistakes that can keep you from reaching your career goals? Let's say you put up a bare-bones LinkedIn profile a while ago because people told you it’s the thing to do. Now you’re thinking about job …
Executive Job Search
Work With America’s Best Executive Recruiters
When you’re in a proactive executive job search, you need to take advantage of every opportunity to advance your job search. Along with networking your way into the “hidden” job market, you'll want to work with the best executive recruiters. I don’t recommend that executive job seekers rely too …
How to Define Your Magnetic, Authentic Personal Brand
There's so much social media-speak and buzz about personal branding swirling around us. It’s no wonder that many people are confused about how to define their authentic personal brand. Tom Peters coined the term "personal branding" in his 1997 article “The Brand Called You” in Fast …
ATS and the Executive Resume Black Hole – What You May Not Know
When I speak with my clients for the first time, and we discuss crafting and strategizing their LinkedIn profile and resume, most of them don’t know about Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and the executive resume black hole. ATS were developed to deal with the overwhelming number of resumes …
10 Common Job Interviewing Mistakes
Job interviews are one of the most nerve-wracking and stressful events many of us must deal with. Job interviewing mistakes are something we can avoid. Did you know that on average 33% of hiring managers decide whether to hire a candidate within the first 90 seconds of meeting them? It’s …
Research Your Target Employers to Accelerate Executive Job Search
The critical first step in executive job search is two-pronged. You need to identify specific employers to focus on, and then research these target employers. Your objective is to determine the specific qualifications and qualities they're looking for in candidates. You also need to …
7 Ways To Contaminate Your Personal Brand and Doom Your Executive Job Search
Sometimes in job search you'll inadvertently do something that will contaminate your personal brand. You do one unfortunate thing or get into bad habits and BOOM!, you've blown a hole in your brand. Other times, things beyond your control intervene to tarnish the good work you’ve done building …
Transitioning Military Leaders: Differentiate Yourself in Executive Job Search
Transitioning military leaders need to understand and follow a solid roadmap for job search success. Those transitioning from the military face a particular issue similar to that of an executive transitioning to a different industry. That is, translating their experience and unique value in terms …
2 More Favorite Insider Tips for Executive Resume Writing
With more than 20 years of executive resume writing experience, I've learned plenty about best practices. And I've innovated strategies to help my clients stand out above the competition. Collaborating with executive job seekers, I've helped them define their personal brand and create their …
Serenity Now! Simplify Your Executive Job Search
Simplify executive job search? Is that even possible? It’s a given that job-hunting these days is a complicated process . . . more so than even a few years ago. And probably more so than the last time you looked for a job: The Internet and social media (especially LinkedIn) now play important …